Talk:The Lord Chamberlain's plays
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- ... that the Lord Chamberlain was the official theatrical censor in England for over 200 years until 1968 with the power to prevent any new play from being performed, often for blasphemy or indecency?
- ALT1: ... that the Lord Chamberlain's plays are a historical archive of play scripts curated through theatrical censorship that provide a unique insight to attitudes to race and sexuality?
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Created by OAnick (talk).
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Post-promotion hook changes will be logged on the talk page; consider watching the nomination until the hook appears on the Main Page.Nick Sheppard (talk) 14:55, 28 April 2024 (UTC).
- Which part of this hook is supposed to link to The Lord Chamberlain's plays?--Launchballer 15:07, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
- fair point, novice at DYK…is update any good?
- I've suggested a possibility of linking for the original alt. Someone else may have a better idea of whether this complies appropriately with best practice for formatting a DYK hook. Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 21:58, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
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Overall: I prefer ALT1 to ALT. The hook length is acceptable for both. ALT has a couple of issues: the title of the article does not appear, but more importantly, the idea of the office's powers is not clearly conveyed: it currently says "for over 200 years until 1968 with the power to prevent ANY new play from being performed". However, those powers were somewhat restricted after 1843, so to say ANY new play could be restricted after 1843 is perhaps misleading. This hook could be rephrased slightly, but at this point, for both reasons, I recommend ALT1 instead. Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 23:47, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
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